Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

“There will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:society oppression

“In solitude especially is it, that the advantage of living with a person who knows how to think is particularly felt.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

topic:loneliness thinking

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:books talking hate

“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need some one to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:learning teaching difficulty

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:youth danger

“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:experience vanity

“Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:science teaching

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:mind body

“Children sometimes flatter old men; they never love them.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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